US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on March 3 for "Non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation for vision restoration from retinal diseases" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,736, issued on March 3, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation for vision restoration from retinal diseases" was invented by Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, Calif.), Qifa Zhou (Los Angeles), Xuejun Qian (Los Angeles), Biju Thomas (Los Angeles), Gengxi Lu (Los Angeles) and Koping Kirk Shung (Alhambra, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retinal disease is responsible for many instances of vision impairment. Often, individuals with vision impaired due to retinal disease continue to have functioning retinal neurons. Thus, systems, methods, and devices to stimulate retinal n...